Lauritz andersen ring biography
After travels abroad, including a two-year stay in Italy, he returned to Denmark..
Ring was born as Laurits Andersen in a village named Ring in southern Zealand.
Laurits Andersen Ring
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Lauritz Andersen Ring was born in the village of Ring in South Zealand, Denmark on 15th August He was to become one of the finest Danish painters of his generation, a golden generation that established Danish painting in the eyes of the world, numbering amongst his contemporaries his friend Harmmershoi (), Holsoe (), Ilsted () and Monsted ().
Ring was apprenticed as a painter before graduating from the Copenhagen Technical School in and subsequently enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Ring was to become a painter who portrayed above all peasant life in rural Denmark, the subject for which he was to become renowned. He made his debut at Charlottenborg in and continued to exhibit there until Like many of his contemporaries, Ring travelled widely, between and he embarked on a tour of Europe visiting Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and Italy, returning to Italy in the early years of the twentieth century.
A highly successful painter